The M2 Browning was not the newest or most elegant weapon of World War II, but German troops encountered it everywhere: on ...

In January 1944, two Ranger battalions walked into an ambush at Cisterna, Italy. Only six of 767 men escaped, forever ...

At this World War II re-enactment, the battlefield erupts as Allied troops struggle to hold their ground against relentless ...

During the bloody battle for Hurtgen Forest in late 1944, a 23-year-old German lieutenant heard a wounded American soldier crying for help in a minefield. Lt. Friedrich Lengfeld ordered his men not to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Below the waves off Germany's northern tourist beaches, a toxic time bomb lurks on the Baltic Sea floor -- enormous quantities of ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

The term “Panzer” refers to a series of German tanks, the Panzer I through Panzer IV early in the war, followed by heavier combatants such as the Panther and Tiger Early Panzer IIIs carried 37–50mm ...

Starfish cling to the metal surface of an unexploded World War II warhead in the German Baltic Sea. The discarded weapons host a surprisingly dense colony of organisms. Once designed to destroy, they ...

Much like WWII helped to build the Jeep empire we know today, the German military's answer to the Jeep helped shape the Volkswagen brand. Ferdinand Porsche began working on the development of Adolf ...

Polish Archbishops Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, the future Pope John Paul II, Boleslaw Kominek, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Wroclaw, and Antoni Baraniak of Poznan are seen in an undated ...